Both Israel and Palestinians also maintain discrete security ties in the West Bank (nearby Gaza, pictured)

The second Palestinian uprising erupted in 2000 after then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount.

More recently, the city experienced a wave of Palestinian stabbings in late 2015 in part because of growing numbers of visits by Jewish nationalists to the Temple Mount, and last summer, the city again experienced weeks of unrest when Israel tried to install security cameras next to the Al Aqsa Mosque after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli police officers.

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